Asia

is found mainly in India and in oversea Indian communities such as the United States and Malaysia. is found in Northern India and amongst overseas Indian communities in other parts of Asia, especially Southeast Asia. is found predominantly in Mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and in overseas Chinese populations. is found mainly in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Taoism is easily syncretized with for many Chinese, thus exact religious statistics is difficult to obtain and may be understated or overstated.

Some of the events pivotal in the Asia territory related to the relationship with the outside world in the post- were:

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Nobel prizes

The , a poet, dramatist, and writer from , now in , India, became in 1913 the first Asian . He won his for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. He is also the writer of the national anthems of and India.

Other Asian writers who won Nobel Prize for literature include (Japan, 1968), (Japan, 1994), (China, 2000), (Turkey, 2006), and (China, 2012). Some may consider the American writer, , an honorary Asian Nobel laureate, having spent considerable time in China as the daughter of missionaries, and based many of her novels, namely (1931) and (1933), as well as the biographies of her parents of their time in China, and , all of which earned her the Literature prize in 1938.

Also, of India and of Iran were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. Ebadi is the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. Another Nobel Peace Prize winner is from for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship in Burma. She is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma (Myanmar) and a noted prisoner of conscience. She is a and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Chinese dissident was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" on 8 October 2010. He is the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China. In 2014, from India and from Pakistan were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

Sir is the first Asian to get a Nobel prize in Sciences. He won the "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the ".

Japan has won the most Nobel Prizes of any Asian nation with 24 followed by India which has won 13.

Amartya Sen, (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and , and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members.

Other Asian Nobel Prize winners include , , , , , , , , , , , , and Bishop of , , and 13 Japanese scientists. Most of the said awardees are from Japan and except for Chandrasekhar and Raman (India), Abdus Salam and Malala yousafzai, (Pakistan), Arafat (Palestinian Territories), Kim (South Korea), and Horta and Belo (Timor Leste).

In 2006, Dr. of was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the establishment of , a community development bank that lends money to poor people, especially women in Bangladesh. Dr. Yunus received his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University, United States. He is internationally known for the concept of micro credit which allows poor and destitute people with little or no collateral to borrow money. The borrowers typically pay back money within the specified period and the incidence of default is very low.

The Dalai Lama has received approximately eighty-four awards over his spiritual and political career., on 10 December 1989.

Within the above-mentioned states are several partially recognized countries with . None of them are members of the UN:

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